This is a Brand New book, in perfect condition. In the early Middle Ages, most people in Europe worked on the land. This fascinating book lays bare these conflicts and paradoxes which surrounded the concept of chivalry in medieval Europe. The Medieval Knights Code of Chivalry Famous Knights. The interaction of chivalry with major governing institutions (church and state) emerging at that time was similarly complex: kings and clerics both needed and feared the force of the knighthood. This elite class took control and knighthood emerged in the wake of this feudal society that was defined by battle prowess, warfare and, later following the crusades, holy war. The Codes of chivalry also incorporated the notion of courtly love. The conflict of outside forces caused a revolution of public justice and the use of indiscriminate violence based lordship that empowered a warrior class. The knights themselves joined the debate, absorbing some reforms, ignoring others, sometimes proposing their own. The Code of Chivalry was a moral system which went beyond rules of combat and introduced the concept of Chivalrous conduct - qualities idealized by the Medieval knights such as bravery, courtesy, honor and great gallantry toward women. 4 At 14, provided you did nothing egregious and were still in good physical health, the page moved on to become a squire. Instead of toys and tag, a page played with maces and worked on his horsemanship. Though the vast body of chivalric literature praised chivalry as necessary to civilization, most texts also worried over knightly violence, criticized the ideals and practices of chivalry, and often proposed reforms. Much of the training focused on games and sports however, they were extreme games. Chivalry praised heroic violence by knights, and fused such displays of prowess with honour, piety, high-status, and attractiveness to women. Professor Kaeuper's original and authoritative study reveals that chivalry was just as much a part of this problem as it was its solution. Medieval Europe was a rapidly developing society with a problem of violent disorder. Seller Inventory # AAV9780199244584īook Description Paperback. This fascinating book lays bare these conflicts and paradoxes which surrounded the concept of chivalry in medieval Europe. The interaction of chivalry with major governing institutions ("church"and "state") emerging at that time was similarly complex: kings and clerics both needed and feared the force of the knighthood. The knights themselves joined the debate, absorbing some reforms, ignoring others, sometimes proposing their own. Though the vast body of chivalric literature praised chivalry as necessary to civilization, most textsalso worried over knightly violence, criticized the ideals and practices of chivalry, and often proposed reforms. Chivalry praised heroic violence by knights, and fused such displays of prowess with honour, piety, high-status, and attractiveness to women. The development of chivalry went hand-in-hand with the rise of knightsheavily armored, mounted warriors from elite backgroundsstarting around the time of the Norman conquest of England in 1066.
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